Monday - a VERY windy day

The weather forecast was for a mostly cloudy, wet and windy day.  Thankfully, it didn't rain too much and more outside work was done.  The winds were honking at around 30 to 40 knots, with gusts to about 60 knots and it's still that way right now at 5:15pm.


More of the front yard was dug out to create a ramp in order for the "beeg machine" to get over to the new stairs.  They're planning to use it to get concrete up to the top of the structure and pour the 'belt' that will support the roof.

Creating the temporary ramp

A view of the temporary ramp as seen from the front porch

The parking area was widened just a bit more and roughly shaped to allow for the building of a perimeter wall.  The piece sticking out from the house, on the right of the picture below, is the entrance to one of the water tanks below the house.

Working on the parking area

After the additional work was done on the parking area, the additional cesspit location was marked and will be dug out over the next few days, perhaps.

Additional cesspit location

We got some rain around 11am, so the guys focused on the "dungeon" area of the house.  They managed to get most, if not all, of the wooden framework completed and will begin to build the framework for the ceilings later in the week.

Guess I need to get rid of some of those wires now!

The door leading to my new office, as seen from my new radio room

Hopefully, tomorrow's weather will be much better and the concrete belt for the roof on the new stairs can be poured.  I'll try to get a couple of pictures of the process for my next post.

The "beeg machine" should be in action tomorrow

Our electrician, Troy, is at the top of the new stairs getting the conduit ready before the concrete belt is poured, tomorrow.

Placing electrical conduit for the new stairs - this picture was taken at 6pm!

Yesterday's work

All the guys eventually turned up yesterday and worked for a few hours.  A concrete footing for the window-well was done, so now the block wall can be constructed.

This gives you an idea of just how deep the window-well is

A closer look at the concrete footing

The additional parking area was dug out and it appears there will now be room enough for 3 cars.  We'll have to see what the actual space is once the small walls are built around the sides.

Beginning the excavation

Sure wish he'd strike oil to pay for all this work!

View from Second Avenue

About 3 or 4 truckloads have to be taken out

Paving paradise to put up a parking lot!

The new 'Radio Shack' location

My radio room will be located back in the dungeon in this area.  Just imagine a wall going across from the post at the front left of the photo.  Access to the room will be from the new outside stairs, via my new office location.

Radio Room location

New Master Bedroom & Bath

This is where Jason and Tina's master bedroom & bath will be located.

Master bedroom & bath location

The new stairs

Here are some inside pictures of the new stairs area.  They were taken a few days ago at various stages of development.

Outside entrance

First set of steps

Second level steps

Third level steps

Top landing

This window will be removed and become an entrance to the living room

A Bermudaful Saturday Morning

It was supposed to be a yucky day, but is starting out with plenty of sunshine and warmth.  Let's hope it stays this way!


Quite a bit of progress with the renovations, yesterday, but still a lot to do.  The outside walls to the new stairs are now at roof height and I imagine they'll begin constructing the roof next week - depending on the weather.  The forecast isn't very good, unfortunately, but fingers are crossed.

New stairs outside walls

New stairs as seen from inside the house

A very large window-well had to be dug in the back yard in order to provide daylight to the "dungeon" area of the house.  Yesterday, the outside wall and window openings were plastered and the windows can be installed as soon as they arrive on the island.  The call is for "Buy Bermuda" but you can't even get 3 standard sized windows in stock when you want them!

The "Dungeon" window-well

The other job that was done yesterday was to take the driveway down to a lower level and grade it off to ensure there will be no flooding.

The driveway was lowered about 16 inches at the highest level

Here's a picture of the entire house at the end of yesterday.  On the right, you'll see the guys looking into the garage.  That will become a kitchen and a new room will be constructed to the right of the garage and become a bedroom with master bath, etc.  When the project is done, there will be 4 rooms below ground level, so this will be a HUGE house.  Also, the area where the truck is parked will be dug out more and there will be a car parking spot for at least 2 cars.

A view of the house from Second Avenue

One fellow is working today in the "Dungeon" and is building the framework for the walls to be constructed.  So, not as much noise as usual around here at the moment.  I'll continue to provide more pictures of the renovations so everyone can get the full picture.

To Blog or Not To Blog

... that is the question!


It's been requested that I post some pictures of the renovations going on here in Cavendish Heights, so thought I'd try to do it in a blog.  Now, I just have to figure out how to use one of these things!